On Fri, 12 Jul 1996, Park, Jung Gyu wrote:
> My area of interest is process development of DPT vaccine manufacturing.
> Does anyone know the vendor/supplier of microorganism. I want to buy the
> strains such as B. pertussis, A. tetanus, c. diphtheria.
>> Park, Jung Gyu
> Dong Shin Pharm. Co. Central Research Institute,
> South Korea
>>In the US try American Type Culture Collection, 12301 Parklawn Drive,
Rockville, Maryland, 20852 USA. I also believe they are on-line but I
don't know their location (I ran across it once using Gopher). I don't
know what their policy on getting pathogens though and I assume that you
will have to get special permits for sending something like that in
international mail. I'll bet there is something similar to ATCC in Japan.
Douglas Stemke
Biological Process Technology Institute
University of Minnesota
